2011年6月15日 星期三

To See Ourselves As Others See Us

Rudy Giuliani, 2008:

You have got to see the trap. Otherwise we are in for a disaster. We are in for Canadian health care, French health care, British health care.

David Cameron, now:

Ask a Briton to describe ?American-style? healthcare, and you?ll hear a catalog of horrors that include grossly expensive and unnecessary medical procedures and a privatized system that favors the rich. For a people accustomed to free healthcare for all, regardless of income, the fact that millions of their cousins across the Atlantic have no insurance and can?t afford decent treatment is a farce as well as a tragedy.

But critics here warn that a similarly bleak future may await Britain if a government plan to put more power in the hands of doctors and introduce more competition into the NHS succeeds ? privatization by stealth, they say.

So frightening is the Yankee example that any British politician who values his job has to explicitly disavow it as a possible outcome. Twice.

?We will not be selling off the NHS, we will not be moving towards an insurance scheme, we will not introduce an American-style private system,? Prime Minister David Cameron emphatically told a group of healthcare workers in a nationally televised address last week.

In case they didn?t hear it the first time, Cameron repeated the dreaded ?A?-word in a list of five guarantees he offered the British people at the end of his speech.

Source: http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/13/to-see-ourselves-as-others-see-us/

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